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Show : The Sa't Lake Tribune TV/FEATURES Friday, November 18,1994 ASIMOV QUIZ FRIDAY PRIME TIME VIEWING | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | C7 For day and late nigh! programming and specic numbers 8:30 forthe cable channels, consul Sunday Trbune IV listings | 9:00 Take Isaac Asimov's Super Quiz toa | 9:30 | 40:00 on Ph.D.Score 1 pointfor each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the GraduateLevel and 3 | 10:30 | 14:00 actress-singer n: Pro groupies. Q points on the Ph.D. Level. Ac 0 tress yans,SiskelandEbert Subject: ANIMAL WORDS FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. Male horse before maturity. Answer 2. Any animal withouta spinalcolumn. Answer 8. Animal that feeds on other animals. Answer GRADUATE LEVEL 4. Animalthat moves on twofeet. Answer 5. A neuteredrooster. Answer 6. A female chickenless than a year old. Answer PH.D. LEVEL 7. Baby kangaroo. Answer 8. A neutered male horse. Answer a woman, s twins make a 9. Any hoofed animal. ‘on revenge. Answer ANSWERS: contract. O48] ony) °6 “Burpley *g eof", “211% *g ‘uodey ‘g ‘padig ‘p “s0yepaid 40 aIOATUTED "g “e}BAGeVAAUT °Z “909 "T SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10to 14 points—you'replenty smart, butno grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder;1 point to 3 points — enroll in reme- dial courses immediately!; 0 points — whoread the questions to you? mutated ACES ON BRIDGE By Bobby Wolff “Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.” Robert Quillen. “I had to take the club finesse first,” claimed South. “If the diamond finesse didn’t work, I had to win two club tricks. Had I taken the diamond finesse first, West’s club king would takes ona have beenanentry to his hearts.” A patient dummy, North had different view of the wholeaffair. Study the play to see if you can spot what North saw. South took his heart king and led a spade to dummy’s king to take the club finesse. On dummy’s king, East had dropped a menacing spade queen. The club finesse lost and West led a spade instead of continuing his own suit. Why establish his suit when he had noentry? This accurate defense left South with no chance to recover. East's spades became the new threat and whenthe diamondfinesselost, the de- *UHF ‘Million Dollar Babies’ Tells Quints’ Amazing Story fendershada plusscore. Wheredid South go wrong? He was rightto develop a second club winner beforefinessing in diamonds. Against a diamond finesse, East would have won and cleared hearts. Had South then finessed in clubs insteadof finding the endplay against West, he would havegone one down. Nevertheless, South’s technique was not best. Instead of crossing to dummy’s spade king to finesse in clubs, he should haveled a low club to dummy, willing to concedea trick. If the diamondfinesse worked, he would score at least 10 tricks. Andifit didn’t and East had a third heart, South’s maximum possible losers would be two hearts and two minor-suit kings. NORTH @K73 08654 @AQ107 4aQqs WEST 465 ¥QJ109 $632 @K54 T 4951098 32 @K5 #10763 SOUTH @A42 WAK $5984 A982 Vulnerable: Both Dealer: South The bidding: South West North East INT Pass 24 Pass 2¢ Pass 3NT Allpass Opening lead: Heart queen By Scott Williams THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Comehome, CBS;all is forgiven. The wretched, ratings-driven excesses of your “Scarlett” miniseries are behindus, and now youbless us with a superb four-hour movie about the Dionne quintuplets. “Million Dollar Babies,” opening Sunday night and ending Tuesday,is a family tragedy based on theearlylives of history’s first surviving quintuplets.It is simple as a fable and powerfully told. Thefacts are these: On May 28, 1934,in the northern Ontario hamletof Corbeil, five identical girls were born two months prematurely to 25-year-old Elzire Dionne, already the motheroffive. Noneofthe five newborns weighed more than 2 pounds,and their attending physician, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, believed they would not survive the night. He ordered them kept warm by the oven and went home. Thegirls survived. Beau Bridges plays Dafoe, the “simple country doctor” who helped deliver the quintuplets, then became a celebrity himself, as well as the guardianoffive identical girls, taking over every aspect of their younglives. From the outset, Dafoe refusesto let Elzire and her husband, Oliva, even touch the newborns. Soon the girls are taken across the road to a hospitallike “nursery,” isolated from the world and their parents. A long CHESS QUIZ BID WITH THE ACES South holds: @K73 w86s5 @AQ107 “(sdomy ajour Jo snoy ‘dDH #1-21) soquos sudden celebrity. With the collusion of the media-goaded provincial government, he presides over a “quints” industry that becomes Canada’s biggesttourist attraction. Dafoe is the villain of the piece, yet Bridges never plays him as a one-note bad guy. Pompousandstuffy, he believes his own pressclippings, yet cannotperceivehis ownpatronizing cruelty to all the Dionnes. AsElzire, Celine Bonniercreates a beautifully detailed portrait of a mother who, with dawning horror,realizes that her children are to be kept from herand, ultimately, lost to her forever. As her husband, Roy Dupuis plays a farmer overwhelmedby the instant, internationalcelebrity of his daughters. He signs a contract within 48 hours of their birth to exhibit them at the Chicago World’s Fair. Kate Nelligan plays sob-sister radio col- umnist Helena Reid, arch andbrittle as a ginger snap. A composite character, she shows how a headline-hungry press “played”the story, slandering the Dionnes and exalting Dafoe. Thefilm’s producer, Bernard Zukerman, said the Reid character was one of two dramaticlicenses his film took with the facts. “The story of the press wasso interesting in itself, ... we decided to create one character that personified what a numberof reporters actually did,” he said in a telephone interview from Toronto. “We also condensedthetimingofthe stoty to five years, because we couldn't go throughthestruggle of finding anotherset of kids!” It was impossible, of course, to use real prematurebabies in the opening scenes, so special-effects wizards Ian Whittaker and Stuart Robinson createdsadlittle * ‘animatronic” preemies — but made them more appealing than the real thing. Zukermanfakedthe 13-month-old quints with bonneted babies. He couldn't do that with the girls who portray the 5-year-old Dionnes. Yet there were no identical, 5year-old girl quintuplets to be had. Instead, he foundtriplets Brooke, Emily and Samantha Gilliland in Maryland, and the remarkably similar-looking triplets Erin, Grace and Bonnie Morris-Vanassein Ottawa. Their performances are unaffected and touching. It's hard to fault Suzette Couture’s screenplay. The requirements of drama forced her to counterbalance the excesses of Dafoe, the press and government, so she hadto makeElzire and Oliva Dionne much nicer, more attractive people than they may have been. That shouldn't even count as a quibble. She provides a magnificent last act and a finale that is as chilling asit is sad. “Wehad to betrue to that.” Zukerman said. “Audiences want happy endings but that wouldn't have been the truth. And the truth is, these kids’ lives were destroyed.” CHAOS TALK SHOWS FOR FRIDAY Today: (2) 7 am — director Ron Howard, actors Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon. Good Morning America:(4) 7 am — actorcomic Keenen Ivory Wayans, singer Bosia, actress Emma Thompson. This Morning: (5) 7 am — talk show host David Letterman (Part 2 of 3); the premiere party for the new Broadway musical “Sunset Boulevard”, film critic Gene Siskel; “Something Wild”(Part of 5). BreakfastTime: (FX) 7:30 am — Olympic silver medalist Nancy Kerrigan; actor Beau Bridges; show host David Hartman. Donahue:(2) 9 am — letters from “Donahue”viewers. Regis & Kathie Lee:(4) 9 am — a look back at someof the funniest momentson the show. Leeza:(2) 40 am — a discussion ontheprivate life of Princess Diana. MontelWilliams: (4) 10 am —The audience is surveyed to determine what they would do in certain ethicalsituations. Suzanne Somers: (14) 10 am — Actress Joanna Kemsdiscusses domestic violence. Maury Povich:(2) 44.am — an updatewith Richard Simmonson the success of a recent"Cruise to Lose.” Geraldo:(43) 14 am — celebrity news. Ricki Lake: (13) 42 pm — personal answers to viewers’ questions. Gordon Elliott: (13) 4 pm — Women confront the men with whom they had onenight stands. Jenny Jones:(4) 2 pm — Womenconfront their formerfriends who stoletheir mates. Susan Powter: (5) 2 pm — when womenkill their abusive mates. Salty: (2) 3 pm — people criticized by their loved onesfor being overweight. Montel Williams: (4) 3 pm — men who would like to put a face to the namesin their giffiends’ address books. Marilu: (5) 3 pm — people with unusual oc- the audience. abedefgh BLACK FORCES MATE Hint: Give up the knight. Solution: “eyeW LYY SeAOWY € UTAH CHESS HOTLINE 567-9460 Bridges’ Dafoeis a little man seduced by Oprah Winfrey: (4) 4 pm — Fashion editors get a fashion gripe earful from women in 4qJ Seath t ANSWER: custody battle ensues;it lasted nine years. woz6y Ty Z uorBY “L 10 ayew S6y saaowy € Yopyy pro 7 uoLBYy David Letterman: (5) 40:35 pm — actor-dk tector Keenen Ivory Wayans, movie critics Siskel and Ebert, music . Jay Leno:(2) 10:37 pm — formerfirst lady Barbara Bush, actress-singer Cybill Shepherd. Jon Stewart: (44) 44:35 pm — actors Jada Pinkett ("Jason's Lyric”) and Danny Aletlo (‘The Professional”), comic Dana Gould, music group Dishwalia. Conan O'Brien: (2) 12:07 am — actor John Turturro, musician Roger Clinton. Dennis Prager: (5) 4:37 am — female body- guards. Jerry Springer: (2) 2:07 am — newlyweds whose marriages are in trouble. |
